Exciting new 281 Capabilities!
281 Communications Corporation Inc. has finally received it's 10 gigabit fiber! Over the coming weeks 281 will be receiving it's own Autonomous System Number from ARIN, implementing BGP between it's two fiber upstreams, and implementing this new capability into the 281 Internet network.
Having two fiber upstreams coming into different points on our network gives 281 redundancy. This is called being multihomed. When there is a fiber outage with one our upstreams, they system will automatically reroute all 281 clients traffic through the other. When both are working, the traffic will route through the best route, so it's even possible and likely that at times you may go out one fiber and receive your requested Internet resource back through the other fiber.
Having multiple paths to places on the Internet will lower latency across our entire network in addition to providing redundancy. The entire 281 team is excited to get this new capability implemented!
No comments:
Post a Comment